Should we really be more 'balanced' in our fluid prescribing?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 703-705

  Morris, Craig ^a   Boyd, Alastair ^b   Reynolds, Nicholas ^b  

^a DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b DERBY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALBUMIN; ANION; BICARBONATE; CHLORIDE; GLUCONIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HARTMANN SOLUTION; HETASTARCH; INFUSION FLUID; LACTIC ACID; MALEIC ACID; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

COLLOID; CRYSTALLOID; EDITORIAL; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HYPERCHLOREMIA; INOTROPISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; OSMOLALITY; PH; SHOCK;

FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 67650230937     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06016.x     Document Type: Editorial

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